Yes.....If you're wondering, we're still looking. If you meet the criteria, I invite you to apply. We'd love to hear from you. Ritsa Nicholas 14th May 2016.

Elaia Licensed Café is an established business that has been in operation for 20 years. Our Kitchen operates from 7.30am to 8.00pm Monday to Saturday and 7.30am to 3.00pm Sunday. We offer a full A La Carte menu with takeaway wine and food as an option. The successful applicants must have proven Barista, Sales, Hospitality and Leadership experience. Must be self motivated and possess a commitment and passion for hospitality. Must be able to commit to weeknights and weekends. Must hold current Tasmanian RSA. The successful applicants will undergo our In-House Training and Induction to become our core Front Of House Team for 2016.If you see yourself as a Elaia ‘fit’, then email us your resume on bookings@elaia.com.au

This position suits individuals who have completed their studies and wish to pursue a career in hospitality.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Applicants which meet the above criteria with proven experience to support it will be notified for interview within a week of application.

This year Elaia Cafe are one of the proud sponsors for Run For A Wish Launceston. In addition to the support of their major event held in October this year, we will be holding our own Elaia Cafe in house fundraising events.

Our target is to raise $15,000 for Run For A Wish Launceston.

How Are We Going To Raise $15,000? By eating and drinking of course! Every day of every week beginning 1st June and ending 31st October will be a fundraising day. We have come up with a theme for each day of the week.

Monday Pizza & Pasta Night Feel less guilty eating those carbs knowing 10% of sales of pizza, pasta and risotto, eat in or takeaway will be donated to Run For A Wish. [available every Monday 5.00pm to 8.00pm]

Tuesday BYO for a Wish Night Elaia maybe a fully licensed cafe but I couldn't resist the idea of BYO for Run For A Wish. Between 5.00pm and 8.00pm on a Tuesday night, bring a friend or two and your own bottle of wine to enjoy with your dinner. Corkage of $10 per bottle will be donated to Run For A Wish. [available every Tuesday 5.00pm-8.00pm. Bottled wine only].

Wednesday Hump Day Need a sweetener for this time of the week? Enjoy your cake and coffee for morning tea, afternoon tea or dessert after your meal and 10% of sales of all things sweet from our dessert cabinet will be donated to Run For A Wish. [available every Wednesday 7.30am- 8.00pm]

Thursday That Takeaway Coffee Never Tasted So Good If you drink small sized takeaway coffee you may wish to upsize to a regular and 10% of sales of regular takeaway coffees will be donated to Run For A Wish. [available every Thursday 7.30am - 8.00pm]

Friday Happy Hour Friday knock off drinks just got better. Between 4.00pm and 6.00pm 10% of sales of wine, beer and cocktails will be donated to Run For A Wish. [available every Friday 4.00pm-6.00pm]

Saturday & Sunday = Stars Day Every weekend our Team will select from our menu their Star Choice and 10% of sales of the Star Choice will be donated to Run For A Wish. [available Saturday and Sunday]

Tips For A Wish So we may have run out of days of the week, but one day each week all tips will be donated to Run For A Wish.

Join us at Elaia Cafe from June 1st and get involved in delivering wishes to as many children with life-threatening illnesses as we can.

If you live interstate or overseas then you can make a donation directly on our Run For A Wish Donation Page. Your donation will go directly towards reaching our goal of $15,000.

If you're already over chocolate Easter Eggs, then let the kids enjoy them and for the more developed palate, you will want something more refined and why not? You deserve it. Top off your Easter with this perfect dessert. The Tiramisu.

As an Easter treat for you, we are sharing our recipe. This is the original recipe that we have been using at Elaia for the last 20 years. It has been tweaked along the way but we think this recipe is a winner! We hope you enjoy making it and eating it as much as we do.

INGREDIENTS

Coffee Mixture

450 mls strong black coffee

3/4 cup castor sugar

good splash of Kahlua

1 packet of Savoiardi Sponge Finger Biscuits

Cream Cheese Mixture

150g softened cream cheese

600mls cream

1/2 cup castor sugar

Cocoa Powder for dusting

METHOD

Combine the coffee, 3/4 cup castor sugar and Kahlua. Allow to cool.

Beat the sugar, softened cream cheese and the cream until well combined.

Dip the biscuits in the coffee just enough to cover. Do not soak.

Cover the base of a small baking dish with a layer of biscuits.

Cover the biscuits with a layer of cream cheese mixture.

Dust cream cheese layer with cocoa powder.

Repeat layers until top layer is Cream Cheese mixture.

Dust generously with cocoa powder. Refrigerate before serving.

Decorate with chocolate ganache and cream quenelles and dusting of icing sugar.

HANDY HINTS

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Refrigeration Time before serving: 2 hours minimum.

If possible make a day in advance before serving as the coffee and Kahlua flavours infuse the biscuits and is more moist. It also allows the layers to set which looks nicer when serving.

Don't soak the biscuits in the coffee as it will cause them to go soggy and will fall apart when serving. Just a quick 'dunk' in the coffee is all that is needed.

Love this time of the year when our new Elaia Team members settle in, get to know each other, our guests and also get the opportunity to meet Peter Caldwell, winemaker of Dalrymple Vineyards and Simon Best our Belaroma Coffee distributor.Anything to do with wine and coffee has to be good.

Peter Caldwell was our guest speaker at our Team Wine Tasting held at the beginning of March.Accompanied by Phil Meyer, distributor of Samuel Smith & Negociants they both enlightened, charmed and entertained our team members in all things wine, wine making, tasting and even opening bottles of wine with a cork!

We sampled 12 wines in total – 6 white and 6 red and yes there was a pizza break in the middle because wine always tastes better with food.

Some of the favourites were the Tasmanian Dalrymple Single Site Bicheno Pinot Noir, Parish Vineyard Riesling, Jansz Single Vineyard Vintage Chardonnay and the Yalumba Scribbler Cabernet Shiraz [sa] got a few votes as well.

We had a few laughs at the individual 'tasting notes'.. so don't be surprised if they use them on you when they suggest your next bottle of wine!

Now for the coffee...later that week, our Team Members also had the opportunity for some Barista training.

Simon our Belaroma Coffee distributor was the trainer for the day and covered all the basics of making espresso, understanding the equipment, grinder adjustment, milk preparation and latte art.

It was great to see them get back to work excited, enthusiastic and ready to put their Barista skills to the test!

In amongst all the buzz and excitement, December is also a sad time for us as we farewell some of our core team who combined have worked over 10 years with us at Elaia.

While it marks the end of an era and a generation, we also welcome the New Year with excitement and anticipation for a new generation of Chefs and Front of House that will take us on another journey of growth and evolution as a business.

We will commence the recruitment process early January 2015.Early Bird applications for Chefs and Front of House will be considered.Get in early and email your resume to bookings@elaia.com.au

December Kitchen Opening Hours

Throughout December our kitchen opening hours are:

Monday to Saturday 7.30am to 8.00pm

Sunday 7.30am to 3.00pm

To make a reservation, call us on 63 313307 or email bookings@elaia.com.au

We thankyou all for your support over the years, especially this year.

What a fantastic month we've had so far with our fundraising for BOFR. Pink Cupcakes, No Peeking Envelopes, hefty donations made in the BOFR donation box. Thankyou to all for your generous support!

But it's not over yet! Now in our last week, we are commencing our Set Menu Fundraiser which runs all of this week for lunch and dinner.

20% from the sale of each Set Menu will be donated to BOFR proudly supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation. You can enjoy 2 courses for $50 or 3 courses for $60. Make sure you bring your appetite with you!

Remember if you're still hanging on to your No Peeking Envelope, you have until Saturday night to redeem it. There are $100 Dinner Vouchers still to be redeemed!

Meet our legendary Elaia Team for 2014.As the year draws to a close, the time has come for some of them to move on and fulfil their lifelong ambitions.You may already see them around as a nurse, teacher, architect, horticulturalist, PR & Marketing expert and perhaps there is a future diplomatin there as well.

This generation of Elaia legends has seen us through a great year of growth,learning, empathy and establishment of Values and a Workplace Culture that is unique to Elaia.

As some will move on, they have paved the way, set the standard and raised the bar for the next generation of legends.

We are now recruiting Elaia Generation 2015.

The successful applicants must have proven Barista, Sales, Hospitality and Leadership experience.Must be able to commit to weeknights and weekends.Must hold current Tasmanian RSA.

The successful applicants will undergo extensive training to become our core Front Of House Team for 2015.Availabilities during December/January essential.

This position will suit those who are completing studies in 2014 with the flexibility of working extra hours during 2015.

If you see yourself as being a legend and part of our next Elaia Generation, please email resumes to bookings@elaia.com.au

"So far in 2014 BOFR has raised a massive $46,728.25!!!!! That is BLOODY EXTRAORDINARY!!!!!"

They are the words of Nicole Darcey after their mammoth fundraising efforts held at Clove in Launceston and Smolt in Hobart last month.

The beautiful Nicole approached me in August this year to see if I would consider using our No Peeking Envelopes to assist with their fundraising event held in September/October. How could I say no?Nicole's enthusiasm, motivation and passion for BOFR was electrifying!I was mesmerised by her story and inspired by her courage and determination.I couldn’t resist and said YES YES YES!!

For the month of October which happens to be Breast Cancer Awareness month, we will be redeeming the Special Edition BOFR No Peeking Envelope.If you are lucky enough to have one, we look forward to seeing you for dinner soon.

We are also running later this month our Special Set Menu from which 20% of total sales will be donated to BOFR.In addition, our chefs will be making special pink yummy treats from which the total sales will also be donated to BOFR.

Check out their Facebook page and website to see what other exciting things are happening in October.

Cast your mind back to when cargo pants were a new idea and a record with a naked baby on it had just come out…… yep, the 90’s!

"Let’s Open A Café” he said “We’ll Have Fun” he said….These were the words my husband [and business partner] Perry used to say to me when we operated the Gourmet Terrace Deli [Charles Street] in the early 90’s. We were already selling freshly made local breads, the best Tasmanian cheeses and smallgoods, bulk bins full of grains, flours, dried fruits and nuts, jars of condiments, sauces and relishes and even had a peanut butter machine! Why open a café? [Why indeed?]

Because Perry was bored and wanted to go onto the next level and our deli customers asked for it. They wanted coffee to go with their wraps and desserts. They wanted us to remove the bulk bins and replace with tables and chairs. They wanted to sit outside and drink chardonnay and pretend they were somewhere else even if just for an hour.

So we did. We opened a Café and we had fun. 18 Years later we are still having fun. It’s a kind of fun that only one who is mad enough to work in hospitality for a long time can understand.

Working in hospitality is a paradox, a dichotomy, a love/hate, a joy a despair, and a feeling of desperation and abundance all at the same time. We couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

That’s why we would love for you to come and share the experience that we have built for you. Come and experience the passion and excellence that over 20 years of experience and hundreds of thousands of hours of feedback, tweaking and growing our unique offering can provide you.

It’s not just the fashion that has changed, we have too, and like the fashion, we feel that we have changed for the better!

Yay! It's August and we're on the home stretch of winter! But we all know it will be comfort food weather for a while yet....

Our Breakfast Club Menu and Blackboard Specials have been a hit this winter. We will be tweaking our Breakfast Club Menu again next week so you still have the weekend to enjoy the Nutella Pancakes. Chef tells me the Omelettes are staying so you're safe there.

As part of our 18th Birthday Celebrations, we will be adding to our Blackboard Specials some of the old Elaia favourites like the Ritsa Pizza and the Toasted Turkish Pida we featured on our menu back in the 90's. More on than next week.

18th Birthday Special Edition No Peeking Envelopes

They're Back and What A Surprise We Have For You!

To help us celebrate our 18th Birthday this year we are re launching the No Peeking Envelopes.

What are No Peeking Envelopes?During the month of July and August when you dine or have a coffee with us at Elaia, you will be given a No Peeking Envelope which is to be redeemed in the month of August - our Birthday Month.

In each envelope is one of the following prizes:

Dessert from Sweet Things

Choice of one beer or cider or glass of wine

Choice of one bottle of red or white Yalumba wine (subject to availability)

Wild Card Double Your Wine or Dessert

Dinner & Wine Voucher to the value of $100

The No Peeking Envelope is only valid when:

envelope is opened in front of ELAIA Café employee

dining Monday to Saturday from 6.00pm – 8.00pm

you book and tell us you’re bringing your No Peeking Envelope

one No Peeking Envelope per booking/table

not to be used with any other offer or Gift Voucher

The ultimate prize of the $100 Dinner Voucher is our special Elaia 18th Birthday gift to you! The more you visit us at Elaia the more envelopes you will be given, the higher the chance of winning the ultimate prize!

You never know it could be you!

So next time you're in for a coffee or a meal, remember to ask for a No Peeking Envelope!